Show Page 2 - Millard County LSPS (Tmnmenta Gentry Brittney (Smith) and I have just returned from my annual trek to the National Newspaper Association Government Affairs Conference in Washington D C It was appropriate for me to be there this year as I was the chairman And it was one of the better conferences if I do say so myself the staff in NNA’s DC office is fantastic We arrived at Dulles Airport Tuesnot my preference as it day afternoon is about an hour from the Capitol Hill area where the conference is always held but it was a direct flight which I was preferable to plane thought changes and all the risk of delays and lost luggage Anyway upon arrival our choices to continue to the hotel were: Wait Vi hours for the next shuttle going to our hotel $12 each 2 Shuttle to closest hotel then cab to our hotel $12 each plus cab fair 3 Cab all the way $35 - $45 or more or 4 Stretch limo with TV radio cassette telephone bar and ice for $50 (DC is not a cheap city but then the average salary is $35000 a year) So we took the limo At the hotel the bellhop told us we had missed Governor Mattheson by about 10 minutes The first night as has been my tradition we had dinner at La Nicoise a French restaurant in Georgetown where the waiters are all on roller skates and at 10 pm they do a show for the diners Brittney and I decided to try the steak stuffed with escargot and Gentry had a lobster and vegetable selection had forgotten how it is to have waiters hovering over filling removing and Nice fussing constantly Back at the hotel we met our friends from Huntingdon Penn and went to the Dubliner also a tradition Wednesday morning nothing was scheduled so we went to the Lincoln Memorial Viet Nam Memorial and Washington Monument Brittney was surprised at the size of the Lincoln Memorial “A black and white photo in a history book hardly prepares you for what it is actually like” (A little trivia picked up in DC The last in Lincoln’s line is Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith) And though have been to the Viet Nam Memorial several times it still has a profound effect on me It is hard to describe there is a reverence and a deep sadness a feeling to flee and a difficulty in leaving As had relatives on my mind (that part of the story later) I looked in the the Viet Nam register for Beckwiths and found five and I also found a Beckwith listed on the MIA POW list They have booths at either end of the monument On our way back to the hotel we were mooned by a street person though I don't think it was intentional He was lying over a grate where heat comes up and when he shifted positions his blanket left a bit of him hanging out and gave us quite a surprise (Eat your heart out Jane you’re not the only one seeing sights) We had to forego any more street and hurry back to the entertainment hotel as I was to preside over the welcome luncheon The luncheon speaker gave us information about the city of DC w ithout the politics D C is 10 square miles and has 600000 people and when you include the surrounding area the population jumps to 3‘A million pected to grow to 5 million in the next few years It has the 4th largest retail business 7th or 8th for office space ': the population has college degrees of scientists and largest number are employed engineers but only 28 by the government - down from what it used to be because of privitization The government now contracts out for more goods and services Millard County The Chronicle Progress USPS MU mry LscaM MU Publisher Sutan - Thurs March 17 1988 - Telecommunications capitol of the world with 14 telephones for every 100 people Education center for the world and center for research In the afternoon we went to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to see Grandpa Beckwith’s arthropod And then we dashed back to the hotel to get ready for the Congressional Reception to be held at the United States Department of State There we has an address by H Allen Holmes Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of PoliticoMilitary Affairs and he discussed the missile treaty between the US and USSR We then toured several of the newly renovated room - John Quincy Adams State Drawing room The Edward Vasob Jones Memorial Hall and the Martha Washington Ladies Lounge According to the brochure the John Q Adams room’s architectural transformation was made possible by the generous gift of Mr and Mrs Kenneth S Battye and they are listed in the back under the $500000 to $1000000 The renovation was all category through donations of money or period furniture and paintngs My favorite piece was Thomas Jefferson’s desk which they think he made himself Our reception was in the Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room which said someone cost $3000000 renovate The rug alone was $200000 I have all the information if anyone wants to donate to the diplomatic rooms and get your name on a plaque on the wall $25000 and above and all contributors are invited to the annual reception hosted by the Secretary of State who is at present George Schultz The Congressional Reception is a time for NNA members to host AmSenators and Congressmen bassadors and other prominent political people This year was especially light on Senators and Congressmen as Congress was in recess and most were home checking on reelection status Ambassador Yuri Dubinin of the USSR Embassy did attend and shook a few hands and told Brittney she was beautiful He is a handsome older man who among his other accomplishments speaks fluent Spanish and French Gentry missed out on a handshake but she got a hug from the Lebanese Ambassador last year And that was about it for the first day Thursday morning was the day to go to the Dirksen Building where I presided over the Congressional Session We have to go early now as security takes time (similar to airport security metal detectors and purse searches) We were addressed by Rep John Kasich Rep William H Gray II Speaker of the House Jim Wright Texas and Sen William Rep William H Gray II GENTRY and BRITTNEY SMITH Viet Nam Memorial on the Editor Dutton 8 Carder by Dawn Carder My mother always told me that Well I “money isn’t everything” know what she meant but in this day and age the adage does not apply Indeed as I see it money IS everything Recently a friend of mine sought The attorney recomlegal counsel mended to her stated flatly that she must give him $6000 up front before he would take the case How many people can afford that kind of money? Apparently “justice” depends on how affluent one is Listening to a CPA address the Delta Area Chamber of Commerce on the new tax laws I was again aware of the inequities in our country A farmer who loses his property then can be taxed on his remaining debt College granted on academic scholarships and need are now achievement taxable I Recently visited with my sister and her family in New Jersey My older niece a senior in high school was planning a trip to Europe with the school choir The cost of the trip was $900 When I asked my niece if there were any choir members unable to afford the trip she quickly answered “Oh yes Lots About twenty I think” Another trip scheduled for the end of the year is the senior trip to Florida Apparently all the seniors are going My sister a school board member assured me that all the choir members could have gone to Europe “They had the opportunity to raise the money Ann earned all her money” Perhaps everyone did have a chance to earn money but and the big BUT is what if money earned was needed for other things like clothes food whatever? Yes I know no one ever said life is fair All around me I see people working and working long hours but these same people are unable to “make ends meet" According to statistics in 1986 two million Americans worked full time throughout the year Still they Another seven mained in poverty million poor people unable to find employment worked less frequently and had greater Financial difficulties Since 1979 the numbers of the working poor have increased from 65 million to 94 million Reagan’s economic recovery program has done Rep Gray a man with more degrees can list and who won his last than election with 98 of the vote said the interest payment on the national debt amounts to $11400 for every man woman and child in the US” And of the trade deficit he said “5 millions new jobs were created but none were in the US" He said among his interests are mass transit and education but because ol the national debt we have to make choices and he “would rather students walked to school than rode to nowhere” And other choices are “day care for children or day care for cows” Editorial Dawn My Opinion The rich get richer and the poor get poorer Reporter Speaker of the House Jim Wright Texas at Large Speaker Wright spoke on the blems of the trade deficit Advertising pro- (ales 8 Legal Billing Riley Wood Rita Robinson Sales Julie Ward velyn Mallet Deb Greathouse Goertz Fillmore Design Office Manager Receivable Accounts Circulation Julie Ward Goertz Rita Robinson Shellie Comp Production Dutton Sen $2000 per 00 per 6 Copy 50 cents Out of County Out of County PO Send Address Box 249 Delta Utah year months changes 84624 on AdvertMnf DeU fostafe fmd Delta 2400 Mmore 6 yu&JX-- tj Doyle Mace's name And even though we heard from both parties their messages on trade deficit and national debt were the same now if only they could agree on the solutions One thing for sure is the pork barrel appropriations have got to stop After the session we went to Senator Jake Garn’s office The Senator was in Utah but it was an aide I had business with and wanted to see anyway We had a nice visit with her and then went back to the hotel for lunch Off again to the Washington Monument and took the 70 second ride to the top for a birdseye view And then back to the Museum of Natural History to look at the gem stones and the meteorite found in Millard County by two Japanese living at Topaz According to “Millard and Nearby” by Frank Beckwith it is the ninth largest to be found in the United States and 1164 weighs pounds Back to the hotel to get ready to go to the theater (Are we exhausted yet?) The play was “Sheer Madness” at a comedy the Kennedy Center whodunit where the audience plays detective Back to the hotel for some visiting in the hospitality room I typed away on this travelog until am last night and we only had room for up to Friday so I’m afraid this will have to be continued until next week Still left is Jack Germond James J White Richard Helms Kilpatrick House Chief of Staff Howard Baker our visit to the Soviet Fmbassy and Kinkakuji Temple by Jane Beckwith foreign correspondent While I’m talking about Kyoto let me tell you about a strangely ironic thing that happened to me while I was there The place I had heard to most about and the place I wanted to visit the most is named Ryoanji a famous Buddhist rock garden that is made out of 15 rocks and white gravel I know very little about Buddhist beliefs except that followers want to know the essence This garden of life through is said to be the essence of Buddhism It is near the Kinkakuji Temple which just reopened this year after being completely refurbished with gold foil It’s a three story building about the size of an average house completely covered in gold even the rooster on top The place was swarming with Buses and taxis jammed tourists People taking pictures of together friends and then changing places and taking pictures again Garish to say the least I walked down the hill and around a bit to arrive at Ryoanji almost deserted by comparison I went past the duck pond that was supposed to have ducks in it through a Mandarin garden the delicately pruned Japanese style of pine trees a bridge and a decayto the shore Then up boat tied ing some stairs and into the temple As with every temple I had to take off my shoes to enter that in itself is one way to soften my mood But the Japanese tourists who were there sitting on the satiny wooden steps observing the garden were talking loudly to each other I had expected a reverential or at least more meditative scene I sat and soon the crowd left and the few people became quiet The garden isn’t as large as I thought it would be hard to judge distance from those National Geographic photos especially since this one has only rocks and gravel Behind the 30 meter by 10 meter plot is about a and a half meter wall made of clay that was boiled in oil So the oil has oozed out during the years in a rich and thoroughly natural pattern I watched and listened to the murmuring of Japanese around me and suddenly felt the entire isolation that must come to everyone who stays in a foreign country for any length of time without speaking the language No one there knew I existed No one talked to me no one even nodded Those who knew me as a person were far away probably tucked safely and soundly in bed without a thought of me Worst of all I knew this was the last time Kyoto would be able to see this spot of the world and felt a type of death or hell The thoughts weren’t pleasant isolation age regret I had to leave I slowly wound my way through the cedar garden with trees pruned prim each almost exaeft copies of the other fifty or so And caught a taxi The sun was I had bright somehow a consolation overdosed on temples so I asked the driver to take me to a shop where they dyed indigo a short wisp of a The proprietor man himself wrapped in an indigo coat spoke quiet almost reverential English He picked up the materials moving around the shop tenderly under the watchful eyes of the three employees sewing and sorting different goods for sell I asked him about dyeing and he invited me almost cheerily to come back and watch him “dye” By now the irony of the two words was starting to emerge I had felt I had died in the garden but here I WAS dyeing and it seemed to bring me back to life He fiddled with a pair of rubber gloves for awhile telling me that indigo is made from a root and that it is then fermented through the use of sake in a special process When the bacteria is alive then it will dye If the bacteria dies it cannot dye His words the irony warmed me and we chatted farther He said “It’s the oxidation that makes the dye work Look the dye is really green” He splashed the surface of deepest purple and truly the color was green He dipped the white cotton handkerchief into the liquid and wrang it out When he unraveled the ball it did turn from green to blue before my eyes Magic Of words Of life and death Of colors I couldn’t resist I stuck my hand into the vat up to the knuckles When I drew it out my fingers were green and quickly changed to blue I did it again delightedly His eyes looked surprised the first emotion I had seen from him Back inside his shop I was now putty in his hands he showed me the “most Japanese” item in his store a coat dyed the richest digo I didn’t fall for his sales pitch about how good it looked on me I was charmed by his saying although that the coat repels snakes and mosquitoes I don’t doubt for a minute that it will last 15 years The workmanship was fine that was certainly a factor and it was the most Japanese thing I had seen But must admit I really bought that coat because of the new connection I felt to the words “die” and “dye” and because it will help remind me that I’m indeed alive Community Calendar Beginning June 15 Motor Vehicle Schedule: Fillmore Mon & Thurs 9 am noon & pm Delta Wed 9 am noon & pm Renewals any working day at Millard County Offices Jan 12 March 26 EMT Course in Delta pm Vocational Saturdays Tuesdays Center Feb 16 April 15 for 1988 Wheat and Feed Grain program ASCS office March “Spotlight on Two Local Women Artists” the work of Lorraine Stewart and Beverly Roth Open during Library hours or by appointment with librarian March 14 - 18 Older Workers Week March 14 - 20 Cancer Society Daffodil Days March 15 - April 15 “Utah Art of the Depression” hibit Delta City Library March 17 Panoramic Steel sponsored by West Millard Cultural Council Veterans of Utah Outreach Program representative in Fillmore Job Service am 12 pm in Delta Job Service pm March 18 Delta High School Spring Fling pm 6 12 March 20 Girl State Tea Rebekah Hall Delta March 21 Millard High Preschool 4th session begins March 23 Women’s Cancer Screening Clinic in Delta For Appt call Tryouts for “Damn Yankees” Delta 7 High School Auditorium pm March 24 W omen’s Cancer Screening Clinic in Fillmore For Appt call Elva at March 25 Cub Scout Basic Training orders for garden seed to Extension office March 26 Delta Catholic Women Spring Fling Bazaar 10 am 3 pm church hall West Millard Pool Swimming celebrates 9th amversary noon to 5 pm Free swimming March 28 Immunization Clinic Delta Public Health office am & pm 3 Printing In Advance Subscriptions In County SIS 00 per year In County $10 00 per 6 months POSTMASTER point to James Circulation Circulation Commercial Single little for this group of people In such a wealthy country as America this large number of working poor is appalling It often appears that the more affluent people either totally ignore the working poor or they are blissfully norant It is easy to write off the problem by saying “They can work harder and change their lives” How can one work harder than all the time? Under Reagan’s leadership Congress has cut federal training and job assistance while public service employment programs were completely dropped How can such actions help unemployed uneducated people help themselves out of poverty? The minimum wage is $335 an hour A person working at minimum wage cannot support a family on hisher income This statistic has been proven true in Utah as in other areas of the country Consider the “necessities” middle and upper middle class Americans take for granted things like adequate (or better) housing medical care health surance child care for working parents school supplies For the working poor such “necessities” are out of the question They simply cannot be afforded The need for educational and training programs is greater than ever There will be a cost to the country but according to Sar Levitan and Isaac Shapiro of George Washington University “These costs would be more than offset by the benefits Government policies that help lift workers out of not only benefit these poverty households they also send the message to other impoverished adults that work is a way of escaping poverty” As concerned citizens these issues must be acknowledged and addressed This is an election year Let us carefully listen to the candidates then choose the ones that are dedicated to social Another four years of change policies will only widen the gap between the rich and the poor We need not be our brothers’ keepers for most do not want to be kept But we must end the vicious cycle of poverty by supporting programs that help people help themselves Money MAY not be everything but it surely helps More news from Japan 2222Sr" to! xA'Nj William Proxmire Sen Proxmire said he had spent 31 years in the Senate beginning with a special election held after the death of Sen Joe McCarthy He said government and the people are living beyond our means The national debt has tripled in three years Household debt is $23 trillion and Americans are only of their income Governsaving ment debt is $24 trillion Business is in debt $3 trillion $9 dollars of debt for every $1 earnings He is retiring and hopes someone reponsible takes over his Golden Fleece Award Annapolis And as many pictures as space will allow Rep John Delta Area Herd Jflturx E'ttTME® Fillmore Area B lm Kngrrs Kasich Rep Kasich has gained fame for his attitude on Penbulldogwatchdog tagon waste 09 A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is lifted off the ground It needs its tail for pushing off 46 I |